Liberation Action Party of Venezuela

The Liberation Action Party of Venezuela (PLAV) is a communist political party in Venezuela which was founded in 2010 by Marcela Acosta. The party was founded as the political successor to the People's Liberation Army of Venezuela (PLAV), a Marxist-Maoist revolutionary group which fought against Ramon Solano's dictatorship with the goal of implementing socialism in Venezuela. The PLAV was supported financially and militarily by China, and it became quite powerful in the Amazon rainforest of southern Venezuela. After the end of the Venezuelan Civil War and the creation of a United States-friendly democracy, the PLAV accepted a peace deal which would lead to the PLAV guerrillas laying down their arms and mobilizing their strength into a new political party bearing the same initials, just as FARC in Colombia would later do. The PLAV had its strongest showing in the Amazonas, with the city of Merida being their main urban stronghold.